Which mods/admins were being Power Tripping Bastards?

@rimu@piefed.social

What sanction did they impose (e.g. community ban, instance ban, removed comment)?

Mass instance bans

Provide a screenshot of the relevant modlog entry (don’t de-obfuscate mod names).

Done

Provide a screenshot and explanation of the cause of the sanction (e.g. the post/comment that was removed, or got you banned).

Explain why you think its unfair and how you would like the situation to be remedied.

He has abused the modlog to claim ‘harassment’, which I have never engaged in. I have not even interacted with Rimu in any way for days prior to getting kicked from the PieFed developer Matrix channels.

He has decided to mass ban 20 users because they have spoken out against his erratic and hostile behaviour as of late.

  • Goferking0@ttrpg.network
    91·
    20 days ago

    I was told they liked the features and now just may not want to migrate.

    Neither really looking like great long term options at this rate

    • Luminous5481 "Enemy of the State"@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      19·
      20 days ago

      we’re actively working towards a fork right now in certain private chats. and by we, I mean the FAF and some allied admins and users. we’ve been discussing how that would be organized atm.

      the intention is to first remove problematic shit Rimu added, then begin adding features we want to break away from his influence at all.

      • Goferking0@ttrpg.network
        9·
        20 days ago

        I’m biased after looking at the code by just thinking it needs a rewrite more than a down stream fork.

        Or I’m thinking too much in terms of rhel os dev

        • Luminous5481 "Enemy of the State"@anarchist.nexusEnglish
          11·
          20 days ago

          well I was working on one and called it pievolution, but I’m mostly versed in design and HTML/CSS, not in Python. so I’m gonna table that and instead help out Mia with her fork instead. hers is called pylova.

          if we’re gonna make a serious push for a fork away from mainline piefed that doesn’t depend on manbabies, I would rather somebody with more Python experience be in charge.

          • mathemachristian[he]@lemmy.ml
            10·
            20 days ago

            Just as a thought as to why I don’t trust piefed as software and would probably not use a server running it, I believe piefed is rather poorly thought out based on this thread which I dont have the expertise to know how true it is, but also the now infamous “this”-checking function which should be a regex gives me real doubt as to the expertise in putting this kind of software together. Checking if a string is equal to “this”, “this.” or “this!” by declaring them a set and seeing if said string is in that set is such a backwards way of doing. And that’s just right there on the surface, god knows what lurks beneath?

            Lemmy 1.0 is getting plugins which can be programmed in python as well, wouldn’t that be a better idea long term? Rather than forking from a dev who is actively hostile to you and wants his software to be so as well? Also I think that if more instances then switch away from piefed to your version that his fragile ego wouldn’t be able to take it and he’d ragequit the whole project leaving you all to maintain it.

            • davel [he/him]@lemmy.mlEnglish
              8·
              20 days ago

              For people already running PieFed instances, starting from scratch today isn’t realistic compared to a hard fork of their current codebase.

              And that’s just right there on the surface, god knows what lurks beneath?

              It’s Python. It’s not that hard to find out.

              Also I think that if more instances then switch away from piefed to your version that his fragile ego wouldn’t be able to take it and he’d ragequit the whole project leaving you all to maintain it.

              Yes, a hard fork would entail maintaining a codebase ever-more divergent from PieFed over time. Anyone serious about forking should consider how much work it would be embark on an independent path.

              Alternatively, perhaps people will build a PieFed to Lemmy converter, because switching platforms while keeping the existing users, communities, and conversations intact is hard.

            • Luminous5481 "Enemy of the State"@anarchist.nexusEnglish
              3·
              19 days ago

              Also I think that if more instances then switch away from piefed to your version that his fragile ego wouldn’t be able to take it and he’d ragequit the whole project leaving you all to maintain it.

              well, judging from the conversations we’ve had, our end goal is a software diverged enough that we’re the ones maintaining it because he has nothing to do with it. some of us have unused servers lying around the house, so we’re setting up platforms as we speak for testing. there’s currently several people who are planning to take part in the development, but that number might go up when we “officially” announce the fork later.

            • Nutomic@lemmy.ml
              3·
              20 days ago

              I just commented here on that thread, its really not a big deal. Using regex for string matching also sounds fine. On the other hand Piefed is a smaller project than Lemmy, so it has less testing and reliability. In the end it depends on your own requirements whether Piefed or Lemmy is better.